Friday, April 9, 2010
I've noticed the interesting way that Arundhati depicts the things that the twins experience through the capitalization of words. The words that are capitalized in the story hold a certain significance over the twins, pg. 92 "That was a Good Sign." pg.96 "Estha Alone." Does anyone else have any observations on the capitalization? Or anything to add about the significance of the words?
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I think that the capitalization has to do with how Roy describes the mind of a small child and how they would see things as a proper noun. They capitalize words that would be replaced by simpler words. When the twins are sitting in the doctors office and they describe the people who are not in the waiting room as "Those with Nothing Up Their Noses." instead of just saying there were people outside.
I believe that the capitalization of certain words, is for a more dramatic sense of and understanding of why the are important to the characters. Or for a more depicted sense of scenery, or sense of space, time, feelings, and characters.
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